The answer determines whether an incident becomes a near-miss or something far more serious.
For organizations responsible for securing sensitive facilities, managing large-scale events, or protecting critical infrastructure, passive monitoring is no longer sufficient. You need real-time awareness and the ability to act on it immediately. That’s why airspace security provider Airspace Link is introducing Alert Areas within its AirHub Portal—a powerful new tool that transforms how organizations detect, monitor, and respond to rogue drone activity.
What Alert Areas Do:
Alert Areas allow organizations to establish monitored 3D airspace volumes within AirHub® Portal and receive instant in-app and email notifications when live drone activity is detected inside those areas.
Users can create Alert Areas directly in AirHub Portal using familiar workflows. Each Alert Area includes a defined geographic boundary, upper and lower altitude limits, and designated recipients for incursion notifications. Alert Areas can be configured as ongoing for permanent infrastructure or time-limited, providing flexibility for both permanent and temporary airspace monitoring needs.
- Real-Time Incursion Detection: Alerts are triggered by live flight telemetry from sensors enabled for your organization. When a drone enters an Alert Area, the system generates a notification once per detected flight per volume entry, ensuring clear, actionable awareness without alert fatigue.
- In-App & Email Notifications: Designated users receive immediate notification when a flight is detected within an Alert Area. Your security team, operations center, or incident commanders get timely visibility into potential airspace risks, whether they’re at their desk or responding in the field.
- Flexible 3D Airspace Definition: Define precise horizontal boundaries and altitude limits to monitor exactly the airspace that matters, from low-altitude sensitive zones to taller vertical volumes.
- Sensor-Agnostic Architecture: Alert Areas work across a growing portfolio of sensor integration partners and can support customers deploying new or existing sensors onto the AirHub platform, ensuring adaptability as detection capabilities evolve.
Why This Matters Now
Alert Areas deliver a critical layer of operational awareness and proactive safety for organizations responsible for sensitive or high-risk airspace:
- Active Risk Management: Move from passive monitoring to real-time awareness of potential airspace incursions around critical infrastructure, facilities, events, and emergency response zones. Know what’s happening in your airspace as it happens—not after reviewing logs the next day.
- Improved Airspace Safety: Gain timely insight into drone activity that could impact operations, security, or public safety, enabling faster assessment and response. When your team receives an alert within seconds of an incursion, you have time to assess, coordinate, and respond appropriately—whether that means redirecting aircraft, pausing operations, or deploying security resources.
- Operational Confidence: Ensure stakeholders have a shared, consistent view of airspace activity, supporting informed decision-making during both planned and unplanned events. When your operations center, security command, and field teams all see the same alert simultaneously, coordination improves and response becomes seamless.
Securing Airspace for Critical Operations: Who Alert Areas Serve
Alert Areas are designed for organizations where airspace awareness directly impacts safety, security, or operational continuity:
- State and Local Public Safety & Security Officials who need real-time awareness of drone activity during events, emergencies, or sensitive operations.
- Utilities and Infrastructure Operators responsible for monitoring and securing critical or sensitive assets such as power generation, transmission, water facilities, and transportation corridors.
- Organizations Managing High-Visibility Events or Facilities including stadiums, campuses, and restricted sites requiring heightened airspace awareness.
The Future of Airspace Safety & Security
Alert Areas are the foundation for a broader set of airspace security and operational awareness capabilities within AirHub® Portal. Planned enhancements include incursion analytics to identify patterns over time, in-app drone whitelisting to reduce false positives, and integration with the AirHub Portal live operations center display for centralized, real-time situational awareness.
For FIFA World Cup host cities and other major event organizers: Airspace Link is actively supporting municipalities with Counter-UAS planning and federal funding applications.
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he Sheboygan County Planning & Conservation Office is proud to announce the launch of the FlySafe Program, powered by AirHub®, aimed at safely integrating drones into the community. With the increasing popularity and accessibility of drones, the County recognizes the need to ensure they are used responsibly and in accordance with regulations.
The FlySafe Program enables Sheboygan County residents and visitors to quickly understand FAA drone rules, local advisories, ground risk hazards, and additional information to help them plan safer and compliant flights when operating in the region. Pilots can access FlySafe via the Drone Operations page on the County Planning and Conservation Department page under Programs/Assocations (https://www.sheboygancounty.com/departments/departments-f-q/planning-and-conservation/programs-associations/drone-operations).
The FlySafe Program is critical in establishing two-way communication between drone pilots and their communities to ensure operations are in harmony with the community providing near-instant authorizations when operating in controlled airspace.
Sheboygan County is committed to promoting innovation and technology while maintaining public safety. Launching the FlySafe Program is a step in the right direction toward achieving that goal.
“We are excited to launch the FlySafe Program and see the positive impact that drones can have on our community,” said Keith Abler, Chairman of the Planning, Resources, Agriculture & Extension Committee. “By working together, we can ensure the safe and responsible integration of drones into our daily lives” he also went on to add.
Sheboygan County is a great place to live, work, and play. From breathtaking views of Lake Michigan with two miles of sandy beaches to world-class sailing and golfing, and premier charter fishing, this coastal community has much to offer including consistently being ranked as one of the safest metro areas in the country. The County is also consistently ranked as one of the top five counties in the U.S. where the manufacturing industry is thriving, Sheboygan County’s diverse economy provides a unique opportunity for drones to add value in a variety of use cases.
“Drones increasingly provide value across use cases like infrastructure inspection and just-in-time parts delivery, making jobs safer and more efficient. At the same time, the use of drones is becoming increasingly popular amongst hobbyists and tourists. Implementing the FlySafe Program in Sheboygan County is a great first step toward implementing the necessary infrastructure and platforms to ensure drone operations are safe and in harmony with the community,” says Michael Healander, Co-Founder and CEO of Airspace Link.
To learn more about the FlySafe Program or where you can safely and compliantly operate your drone in Sheboygan County, please visit the Planning & Conservation Department page on the County website.
ABOUT AIRSPACE LINK
Airspace Link’s vision is to create a world where the safe integration of drones fuels human progress, advancing social equity, the environment, and the economy. Founded in Detroit in 2018 by CEO Michael Healander, Airspace Link is one of the few FAA Approved UAS Service Suppliers of the Low Altitude Authorization & Notification Capability (LAANC). Airspace Link’s cloud-based platform, built on top of Esri GIS technology, provides the digital infrastructure required to support the safe use of recreational and commercial drone use in communities at scale, supporting the growth of drone operations, drone service providers, drone manufacturers, package delivery, and air taxi deployment in the future. Visit https://airspacelink.com/ to learn more.
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